skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose it all depends on how you define market mechanisms. What I've found -- after personally studying the subject -- is what a lot of people consider free market is the opposite of what the literature considers it to be.

To answer your point:

Most/all of the issues you raised are met by "pooling" aka insurance. The need arises at random and when it does there is a massive cost and you urgently need the service. This is what insurance is for.

What I was suggesting isn't that people go and pay the doctor out of pocket -- although they can. Rather that they purchase insurance. Those who can't get $$ indexed to some national average or whatever scheme you prefer. The point is everyone gets to purchase insurance if they so prefer.

The problem is that choice of insurance providers is artifically limited right now and the choice of healthcare providers is as well. So you have a system where you are captive to the need and those who provide the service have a monpoly. Naturally costs will rise. Putting political preassure on government to increase spending is easy way out but that will only shovel more money from the pockets of the many into the pockets of the few. In fact this was predicted when Medicare was first introduced, and here we are. It is not like doctors and providers magically became greedy capitalists in the last 40 years.

Also to be very clear this isn't an issue of "profits". Insurance companies don't have huge profit margins. They make their "wealth" by being a monopoly. The execs make their money on the rise in stock prices which isn't sensitive to their 3-5% profit margin.
So it winds up you pay for everything. Your “drug plan” too.
My memories of non-web toolkits are not as fond as yours.

You mention Swing, but I remember lots of my non-programmer friends dreading having to use applications made with Java, since they were considered sluggish and resource-intensive. They also had a certain look and feel to them that made them stick like a sore thumb compared to other apps, and a lot of people knew by looking when an app was made with Java.

Java was actually pretty fast even back in the early 2000s, but thanks to Swing et al (and to the JDK requirement), Java desktop apps had a reputation was much worse than Electron or JS-heavy websites have today. Especially among non-programmers.

Strangely, OTOH, Visual Basic had a terrible reputation among programmers, but most Windows users had no idea about it since it used native widgets.
Well it's not really a question of what you should do, it was more a comment on what the ideal solution would be.

Is your platform as large as Twitter, is it one of the main communication platforms in society, does it allow users to wield social and political influence? Is it a proverbial public square?

If so, then in my view a wise and emotionally mature person would elect not to censor opinions, realizing that there are more important things at stake than hurt feelings.

Of course I might be wrong when claiming that censoring opinions and mandating a specific morality will lead to more conflict (see another comment I made in this thread for more on that). Maybe it won't. I guess we'll find out in the next decade or so.
> They're only now dealing with something that happened over four years ago?

“The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine”.

> Am I missing something?

Yes, the history of the crime and related events related in the complaint linked fromm the press release. Compressing a bit:

The various Twitter accounts used in 2016 were under false names, a Congressional Candidate for whom Mackey worked outed Mackey as connected to the “Ricky Vaughn” the accounts in late 2018, the FBI interviewed that candidate and a documentary filmmaker who has interviewed “Ricky Vaughn” in 2018 and confirmed the identity in late 2020. There's lots of stuff not directly germane to the charges against Mackey about the narrative left out, but there was presumably more investigation to attempt to identify others involved because several co-conspirators are listed only by Twitter IDs.
The problem with drug prices isn't because of the drug manufacturers, it's with the middle-men and private insurance companies. At least, that's what the manufacturers are saying

For instance, with the manufacturers of insulin, none of them are American and they offer to sell the insulin to everyone at the same price.

The problem is that the large insurance companies use just three middle-men drug buyers called Pharmacy Benefits Managers (PBM) who DEMAND growing discounts every year from drug manufacturers, so the drug manufactures have to raise the prices to the US market every year to keep making a profit.

Novo Nordisk is willing to sell insulin much cheaper, but the drug buyers demand about a 75% discount off of the wholesale cost or they'll make the product not covered by the insurance companies they represent. To compensate, they raise the wholesale price in the US so after the forced discounts, they still make the same amount of money.

The people who suffer are the ones who don't have insurance.

The solution, at least in the case of insulin, isn't cheaper prices from the manufacturer, it's for the US to pass a law that prevents insurance companies from dropping a product based on the refusal to discount the product if it's under a certain price-per-month.

This article seems to cover the finger-pointing between the manufacturers and PBM's and insurane companies very well: https://www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/pharmacy-benefit-man...?
You must have good insurance if you think your experience is typical. Most people aren't so lucky.
I love when "medical" products with incredible claims show upon Shark Tank because Cuban usually shreds the owner's claims in about 2 seconds. He doesn't seem to tolerate grifters very well.

This venture seems like a shot across the bow of anyone trying to squeeze an unfair percentage on top of generic drugs. Kudos to Cuban for launching this but it is something the US government should have been doing decades ago through drug price negotiation for medicare.
> and hard pine/other wood for more expensive

Pine is a softwood.
It would work fairly well for minimal routine care and relatively minor trauma, as long as euthanasia is on the table for major long-term care, major trauma, and for those who cannot pay.
Amnesty: Ban dangerous facial recognition tech that amplifies racist policing
> Very few people have the skill to turn a div into an effective button, yet over and over I see web sites with rows of buttons which are in fact just divs with javascript behind them.

You can add role="button" and a modern browser will treat it just like a normal button and all the accessibility that comes with it.
Getting off of Facebook and Twitter was the best thing I ever did - I can't believe how much more mental space I have now that I'm no longer stuck in conversation loops with strangers.

Interestingly, it was a mushroom trip that did it. The mushroom spirit (or whatever you want to call it) lucidly explained how I was wasting my life on those websites. The next day I quit, and its been years now, though I def felt withdrawals for a few weeks being off of twitter. Now it's like I was never even there.

I feel so bad for all of the young people who can't understand, due to peer pressure, just how bad it is for them. And shame on parents for not making more of an effort to ask questions.
Yeah, I think the issue is telling a client with a straight face you're going to add a "not quite ready junior dev" to a project to QA your own work for the client and charge the client for the privilege (even at a "below market rate") is a bit ... off.

And if you're doing it fixed-fee, then you really need to confirm that the QA is either accelerating delivery (and therefore reducing costs) so you can keep the price constant and collect more margin or ensuring a better (i.e. more valuable) outcome to the client to justify an increase in price in a fairly competitive bidding market.
yeah I went in expecting to disagree, but then agreed wholeheartedly.

That's no different than setting up a "voting booth" in a black neighborhood so they don't go to a real voting booth. 100% deserve jail time for that.
One of the big issues with Zuckerberg's optics are the circumstances around Facebook's creation. An app to rate people's attractiveness, laughing in chat logs that people would trust him with their personal information, etc. Combined with the externalities and immense power they now have, it's not a great look.

However, I agree that he's probably a better person than most give him credit for, and I think he's really stuck between a rock and a hard place on a lot of these issues. Especially things relating to politics, mis/disinformation, and free speech. I consider the proliferation of non-paid online services (who therefore can only survive by making money in other ways) the true bane of humanity; not any particular executive. (That said, I'm also not going to let anyone off the hook once they deliberately choose to create such a service.)

I had a high opinion of Bezos until the disclosure of Amazon's poor working conditions. His making the minimum wage for workers $15/hour is a good step, but I think they're going to need to do a lot more before that reputation changes. Other than that, I admire him.

Dorsey seems to be the least hated of the bunch, and I like him, personally. He seems like he still has a kind of hacker mindset, and I believe he genuinely wants to make Twitter a force for good in the world. I'm not sure if he'll be able to accomplish it, though.
After years in academia, it's incredible how much conscious effort I have to put into writing (or giving a talk) without using "we".
I entirely agree with you on the above!
Might want to have a look at:
https://sourcehut.org/

> But at the same time isn't it quite easy to set up a github server?

I suspect a typo here - is on premise github a thing? [ed: judging by other comments github enterprise allows self-hosting - but unlike gitlab there's no Free software version]. Fwiw setting up a gitlab server is indeed quite straightforward.
OpenGL 2D Facade (20): Automatic tile borders – Design Patterns and Video Game
“Warp speed,” “Prime Directive” predate Star Trek, per new reference tool
Interesting! What is Burry’s involvement in this kerfuffle?
My BMI is 20 what's yours?

https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/BMI/bmi...
Welcome the Visdom Project at Fossasia Now Fully Open Source
Human MRIs are also pretty expensive, and human MRI machines are generally booked solid. MRI machines cost a lot and also cost a lot to operate.
Fantastic level of coping skills. I'm too IMPORTANT to be smart!
> It's common where I am to get spam phone calls that spoof Caller ID to match the area code and first 3 digits of your own number, to appear "local" and make you think it might be someone you know.

I always find it hilarious when the spammers accidentally spoof a leading "+" and I get a phone call from Romania.
It happens on occasion, and those "libertarians" often very quickly realize how valuable government infrastructure can be.
I'm looking forward to their nostalgic memes on the topic.
Yes I think this is an important distinction. In my view the most salient divider between modern social media and other social things that use the internet is the presence of activity feeds. The model of pushing everything you do to everyone you're connected with was a huge shift.

I was on the internet communicating with friends and strangers on forums/message boards, IRC, AIM, and pre-feed Facebook well before the news feed was the default model. The "stalker feed", as it was known in 2006(?) when it was first launched, totally changed things, both in terms of the volume and ease of scrolling through content and the kinds of "news" that would be brought to your attention.

Something that sticks out in my memory of when Facebook's feed launched (I was in college at the time) was the additional pressure surrounding the "relationship status" field. Suddenly it wasn't just people who actively looked up your profile who might notice that you were "In a relationship with X", instead the act of updating it was broadcast to hundreds of people. Low stakes for adults, perhaps, but genuinely stressful for teenagers!
> This Bill establishes a mandatory code of conduct to help...

The Future would be restricted just by more CoCs.
> they'd most likely arrive shooting, as they do when there are parties in slums.

Can you please link to the news articles about these slum parties that are broken up by officers who start shooting the moment they arrive? Seems like something that would definitely get reported on.

In all my time living in low-income housing, I never witnessed something like this. And I had plenty of sleepless nights when neighbors would throw ragers. Some got broken up (mostly when a fight would break out among attendees), and I'm sure some of the cops weren't pleasant. But I never witnessed cops jumping out of their cars with their guns blazing.

Although I'm one piece of anecdotal evidence, so I'd like to see the evidence you have of this event.
The Complaint details the key connection being made between the pseudonym and the real person in a podcast appearance by a Congressional Candidate in 2018, and key FBI investigative activities occurring in October 2020, so it's not like it has gotten to 99 before Trump was in office and then Trump’s DOJ sat on it until Biden came into office.
I might be misinterpreting your last sentence regarding M1 MacBook Pros. Are you saying they are underpowered for surfing the internet?
Interest rates also have a lot to do with the growing gap. The asset bubble is real, and is skewed to largely benefit the wealthy.
> I should have been more clear in saying malicious and maliciously motivated actors.

The actors einpoklum refers to are malicious and maliciously motivated. Do you perhaps mean unsubtle in their malice and lacking in significant public credulity? (Eg, white supremacists.) Because while there are plenty of other bad actors, any 'solution' that doesn't address the bad actors einpoklum describes... isn't.
I have horrible DNS issues on many sites.

Probably another rolling outage or something ...
GPT-3 is the same "tech" as GPT-2, with more training. GPT-2 is FOSS. I have a feeling that OpenAI's next architecture (if there ever is one) would still also be FOSS.

I think OpenAI just chose a bad name for this for-profit initiative — "GPT-3" — that makes it sound like they were pivoting their company in a new direction with a new generation of tech.

Really, GPT-3 should have been called something more like "GPT-2 Pro Plus Enterprise SaaS Edition." (Let's say "GPT-2++" for short.) Then it would have been clear that:

1. "GPT-2++" is not a generational leap over "GPT-2";

2. an actual "GPT-3" would come later, and that it would be a new generation of tech; and

3. there would be a commercial "GPT-3++" to go along with "GPT-3", just like "GPT-2++" goes along with "GPT-2".

(I can see why they called it GPT-3, though. Calling it "GPT-2++" probably wouldn't have made for very good news copy.)
Where on earth did you get that idea?

The most common meaning of the word "topology" is quite simply "a topology". As in a set of opens for a particular space of interest. These show up all over the place regardless of whether you can do some algebra on them.
Everyone who are finding the pricing too high: care to share why you're not hosting/running your own gitlab instances?
> You just need to know enough to start; the rest you’ll pick up along the way.

Hmmm... I guess that's technically true (and eventually you do need to start), but I've seen a lot of people continue to code in very inefficient ways because they actually don't know that a better way even exists. If you're not starting because you're not done learning, you're probably not doing it right, but if you're done learning because you've started, you're also not doing it right.
Does this compete with Good RX?
You can: have an “insecure.” version of your site, like people used to have a “secure.” version.
It's really beautiful, but I admit that I'm not a fan of the "bite-sized" formatting that's common these days. I found myself scrolling through it to look for some more depth, but the mix of embedded self tweets with short sentences left me with more questions than anything.
Insurance companies are a symptom of the problem but the real solution is either single payer, something NHS like or something like the German model (which is probably the most similar of the major countries to what the US has now - though it’s still three quarters state funded).

The NHS was to an extent a statistical fluke (right politician in the right place, just post-WWII) that the right wing has been trying to dismantle for decades, without WW2 I’d be surprised if we had anything like the NHS.

Basically you need politicians to ignore the lobbyists and do their job of regulating this shit for a better society.

Sadly I don’t see it happening though there are some hopeful trends.
On its face this seems handy: automatically generate pleasing social-media images for different links on your site instead of fiddling with photoshop by hand, and throw in an integrated CDN to serve them

But the pricing, for the above, seems insane: $99/mo for the standard plan

So I assume I'm missing something about what this service can do, and what value it provides. Can anyone fill me in?
I think the poster you’re responding to is upset about the hypocrisy, not the shutdown itself.
> To suggest that their environmental impact is higher than that of equivalent favtory equipment needed to produce furniture is delusional

Western society has become full of contradiction...

Consumerism is environmentalism,

War is peace

Freedom is slavery

Ignorance is strength
The -fsanitize=address flag is orthogonal to the runtime library. All -fsanitize=address does is each time the compiler uses memory at address x it generates a few extra instructions which check a bit is set at the shadow address ((x >> 3) + 0x7fff8000). I use a simplified runtime intended to support just that in a few hundred lines of code. Overlaps aren't possible since no shadow address can exist outside the range 0x7fff8000 ... 0x100080000000. Even if you use the stock runtime, I'm not convinced local escalation is possible through having the ability to write foo.PID files. I don't understand how that clobbers files like /etc/shadow.
https://www.bannerbear.com/blog/how-to-get-your-first-25-saa...
This rule came about out of fear of claims images were manipulated/doctored. By processing a RAW image, you are manipulating the image in post (even if just for developing purposes only. No compositing/editing.) If you never have to do any post processing, then there is very little chance of any "shenanigans" of compositing something into or out of the image. The image is exactly the way the camera saw it.
We dont talk about musk just because he's rich - we talk about him because he translated his wealth into nerd cred/social standing by investing in space ships, electric cars and leo satellite internet, which excites the imagination.
Excellent article. One slight adjustment would be to use a color calibration chart for the photos [1]. When the whole thing is about color, it’s a bit of a bummer to not see the color represented accurately. On my iPhone it looks like the carriage house green I painted my kitchen cabinets.

Not to detract from the article though which is such great sleuthing, and preservation of something that us retro tech obsessives are very fond of.

1: https://m.dpreview.com/articles/6497352654/get-more-accurate...
How do we feel about some kind of objective standardized test that you'd have to pass in order to be allowed to vote?

Sure you want that? Because if there are any questions on the test about Jim Crow laws, you're going to fail.

https://www.treeoflogic.com/literacy_test.htm
How does that $24bil compare to oil revenue? Big numbers aren't scary if they are contextualized by even bigger numbers.
I doubt this.

To me, libertarianism is simply “might makes right,” with the liberty part being everyone has the opportunity to grow into a bully. I’ve never seen a SINGLE libertarian policy that couldn’t be interpreted this way, and I’m quite open to being corrected.
Why does this generic have to be retested if it's the same as the existing generic? Can't they just do composition(?) testing to very it meets manufacturing standards?
Houston is the most diverse city in the United States. Literally every citywide elected official in Dallas is a person of color.

I suppose it's arguable that you may want to stay out of some suburbs if you're not Caucasian, but an American major city is an American major city on that score.
The fact that you had to point this out demonstrates that there are a decent number of people who are either out of touch with what life is like for people living paycheck-to-paycheck, or else they're trying very hard to rationalize things.
> If you find a really good tutorial by programmers who are both excellent teachers and experienced in that particular field, it beats JIT learning on a personal project in one important respect. You get exposure to the One True Way of doing things.

That's exactly my feeling when I was watching Jon Gjengset's Rust tutorials. I like his real reactions to unexpected problems. Really learned a lot from this kind of lengthy but realistic videos. https://www.youtube.com/c/JonGjengset/featured
Machine learning saves us $1.7M a year on document previews
The cost of developing in JS isn't necessarily lower, just amortized. Or in many cases, externalized to your users.
That's totally fair, this guy is on the higher end and this is the only project I'd be willing to pay that for.

You can find one for less, though, if you ever find yourself wanting one. Mentor.io is a good place for it.
I found early-on that MOOCs were terrible for learning because of the barriers they put up. Locked-in time schedules, a trend towards very short "bitty" and simplistic videos that don't tend to offer any direction when they're done.

Youtube lectures on the other hand have been immensely valuable, especially if you can find a relevant (university) reading list and/or problem sets if they're applicable. All you really need as a self-learner is someone to say "head in this direction". After that I agree with op that finding something fun to do is the best way to learn.

On an aside, as a text highlighter (I highlight the text I'm reading), the javascript "tweet this" pop-up on this site is horrific.
I'm trying to figure out what I know well enough to charge $150/hour to teach people now...
Yes, absolutely.

I use closed caption when possible because often I don't quite hear things right and can't make out words. I could turn up the TV, but this means I can enjoy it at the same volume as everyone.
The JS performance difference between high and low-end devices is stunning (9s vs 32s load times, based on the Medium article). Web devs, who are often used to using the latest and greatest devices, will have no idea how terrible their code performs on slower devices. And I fear that modern CPUs with excellent JS performance will only exacerbate this issue
Intermountain Healthcare did something similar in 2018 and created Civica RX. See:

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/hospitals-health-systems/dr...

https://civicarx.org/
As someone who was largely self taught in the past 3 years, my biggest frustration with learning on the go online has been the flexibility of the code / lack of contest with free online resources.

Yeah if I google how to build a widget to add to an application, I can find that. However, the widget is often so tightly coded that it couldn't ever be useful, it doesn't fit a given pattern or concept... it's JUST that widget.

A widget that just adds +1 to a thing (an admittedly contrived example) might do the job for what I googled, but oh so often it is inflexible and doesn't really teach me much about WHY it was coded the way it did... it just produced an outcome that I googled.